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The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.
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Are users allowed to edit questions to better suit the answer they can provide?
Since I have been specifically referenced I feel I should make a comment.
I absolutely agree with @AliceD.
Edits are about improving the clarity of the question, not changing the question.
This is ha …
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Proposal for rephrasing the “homework” off-topic explanation
Perhaps you have misidentified the problem. We don't and shouldn't answer homework questions. But our definition of a homework question is sloppy, and I think sometimes we use this when we don't know …
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What to do with Bioinformatics programming questions
Programming and bioinformatics can be separated... sometimes...
Could it be that there is a clear difference between programming and bioinformatic questions?
Generally there are questions that I feel …
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Should all the nucleic acid tags be bundled together?
I prefer proteins, but I occasionally dabble with DNA as all biologists need to do from time to time. On this SE I noticed that there are tags for rna, dna, and mrna.
Inspired by an inconclusive taggi …
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Minimum effort on "homework" questions - Multiple choice questions
This is more of a long comment rather than an answer.
MCQs are a controversial format. Personally, I believe this is because they allow for very little research to be done and the question to still b …
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2017 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire
Question 1
1) Several posts in meta have raised the possibility that our closing policy is inconsistent and applied too often. However, no clear consensus seems to exist. Do you think this is an i …
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What's better? Closing as homework, or adding homework tag?
Discussion
I think homework questions have a place on this site. Not everyone has access to text-books, and Wikipedia can get very complicated very quickly. …
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Can we update the question guidelines to improve the quality of homework questions?
Post what you learned from that discussion.
Have I attempted a reasonable answer? Post this in your question too.
Have I added the homework tag? …
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What are we currently doing with old highly upvoted but kind of bad questions?
Out-of-date questions
I came across this "How did the human brain evolve?" question. It is a 7-year-old question with about 16 upvotes.
It is a great example of the Q&As I am talking about.
Evidentl …
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Ethical considerations on use and abuse of animals
disagree morally with hunting, we should not impose those beliefs on people who perhaps grew up with it as part of their culture and tradition, and we should engage responsibly with scientific biological discussion …
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Permanent Off-Topic criterion: Questions based on religious/mythical stories and intelligent...
Creationism/intelligent design is wrong a matter of opinion.
Somewhat related is the recent PloS ONE retraction "Biomechanical Characteristics of Hand Coordination in Grasping Activities of Daily Livi …
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How to engage with discredited articles?
A recent question caught my attention relating to genetic IQ. At first glance its a reasonable question. It attracted 3 upvotes so far, more than many exceptional questions on this site. Disturbingly …
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Site design for Biology community
What I like
The palette is spot on and the double helix logo is, if not a bit obvious, very on point. The biochemistry is well represented artistically and the 404 three eyed fish is very humorous!
Wh …
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If citations aren't provided, should I edit someone elses answer?
Over the last month or so there have been productive questions surrounding citation (When to use citations, how to combat unreferenced answers).
In a recent answer regarding bad eyesight there was a …
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When are citations needed in an answer?
Don't cite everything.
In my undergraduate honours degree I came from the other end of the stick and referenced too much; an equally unhelpful filter. I cited almost every sentence and statement with …
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